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r Chicago examiner vol xii no 284 a m wednesday Chicago november 18 1914 wednesday registered / u s patent office prtrft dnip rcwt in clm-ago and i elsewhere rkil-fc ulnt fcjn 1 suburbs t two cents 2,000,000 stolen from city car fund germans again force fighting build dikes to check floods tennessee's launch shelled kaiser halts russ advance czar'siops assault cracow fall of galician capital expected momentari ly would give czar key to the industrial districts of silesia venice nov 17 â€” advices by way of trieste say the investment of cra cow began saturday the russian force advancing upon the austrian stronghold from the north opened the bombardment 1 as soon as their big guns were brought up from miechow the northern section of the city was ! soon in flames j violent assaults upon all defenses are being made by the russians the force advancing from t east which has now passed tarno-w is moving rapidly and the capture of cracow is expected momentarily for the russians the fall of cracow means the key to industrial districts of silesia striking a vital economic blow at germany check r.vss advance berlin 1 ,. nov 17 â€” a general re view of the situation in the eastern arena based on information given out here indicates that the latest german victories are such that the advance of the russians has been rendered more difficult the great difficulty for the rus sians is found on the vistula which separates both wings of their army the russian army which was beaten near wloclawek and which appar ently came from warsaw was driven back in a southerly direction not in the direction from which it had advanced it was forced along a road running from kutno to gombin while the northern russian army operating near soldau was forced back to plocq by way of lipno the germans are now standing on the right wing of the main russian army consekuently they have won a tactical success in addition to cre ating a favorable strategic situation news reaching here from vienna is to the ffect that all along the ga lician border the military activity leads german observers to suppose that the austrians also haev taken the offensive kaiser rushes aid london nov 17 â€” a news agency dispatch from amsterdam says that thousands of german soldiers from the western battle front are passing through cologne en route to koenigs berg and the east prussian front the official report of the russian general staff announces the occupa | tion of possessern a town on the i marggrabowa-angerburg railroad only nine miles northeast of the east prussian fortress of loetzern 40,000 die in few hours a message from amsterdam says the nieuwe rotterdamsche courant quotes a letter from a galician priest saying that 40,0tfu austrians were buried in one day in a grave six and one-half feet wide and a little more than four miles long the bodies the letter says were laid next to each other in three layers these men wÂ«re killed it is stated during a bat tle lasting only a few hours field marshal oskar potiorek com i manding the austrian troops operat i ing against the servians reports after nine days severe fighting against an obstinate and nummerical ly superior army the brave troops of the fifth and sixth corps have reached kuinhara and forced the ene my to fight over 8,000 prisoners 42 cannon 31 machine guns and nu merous war material were captured commander of warship tennessee informs the sultan's governor he | will execute his or der to enter smyrna bulletin london nov 17 an ex change telegram from athens states that yesterday morning a | launch from the american cruiser | tennessee which anchored at 1 1 vurla in asia minor \ endeavored 1 to enter the gulf of smyrna to ar range with the authorities for the cruiser to enter the harbor the forts opened fire on the american launch and forced it to return to the ship the commanding officer of the tennessee then informed the gov i ernor that he had orders from his government to enter the harbor and that he decided to execute the or ders at the time this dispatch w